The United Nations is warning that 270 million people could be food insecure by the end of 2020 – double earlier predictions – with the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to a global hunger crisis. With a worsening crisis facing millions of displaced Syrians, the World Food Programme is launching a historic humanitarian response. Redmond Shannon reports
- Oliver non-profit preparing 7.5 million servings of soup to tackle world hunger
- Over 350 million in Asia going hungry due to coronavirus pandemic, UN says
- 2021 will have ‘famines of biblical proportions,’ Nobel UN agency warns